Death by third attack? As the explosion scene replayed in their minds, the viewers felt a sudden chill course down their spines, realizing that Levi was using a freaking nuke born out of sunflame and void as a defensive ability!
They saw the Masked Butcher’s powerful strike absolutely obliterated and devoured like it was a mere leaf getting hit by a nuke’s shockwave!
’This... this is not normal.’ N’ibby commented with a solemn tone mixed with shock, ’It’s impossible to create such a complicated technique without having a decent resonance of all three Origin Seeds... that’s even more impossible, considering their conflicting extreme personas!’
’I don’t really know how he did it... But, I already told you.’ Jasmine showed a sweet, proud smile, ’It’s Levi... if he can get us out of that ancient site alive and rich, he can do anything.’
Whooooaaah!! Celestial! Celestial! Celestial!!...
After a brief moment of daze... Levi’s established fans from the two games didn’t give a shit about what he was or wasn’t... all they cared about was seeing their idol absolutely ruin everyone else with his usual mysterious flair!
To see him mix sunflame and void to create a nuke-like technique with a violin... nothing was more ludicrous and brazen than this!
"With that kind of ability as defense, I can’t risk hitting him with melee range abilities... this bastard, he knew exactly what to use in this game."
The Masked Butcher muttered with an irked expression as he watched Levi create another dome and feed it with sunflame and void energies.
It looked like the rest caught up.
"The Celestial is proving to all why the best Defense is Offense!" Gamemaster Gamble shouted passionately, "As long as he keeps using the same defensive technique, almost no one will dare strike him up close in fear of getting consumed by those opposite raging energies!"
Gamemaster Gamble was correct... the best Defense was Offense.
During Levi’s preparations, he understood that this concept was one of the keys to gaining an edge in the game.
They were given limited chances to attack or defend... Levi realized that he must create a defensive technique that would fight back for him. Whether it did damage or not to his enemies, it would put them on their toes since those under attack couldn’t use defensive abilities.
In simpler terms, each time they were attacking, they put themselves at risk of getting punched back by the defensive ability if it was built with an offensive angle.
This kind of thinking helped Levi discover how to abuse the sunflame and void aspects’ conflicting nature to his advantage and create one of his greatest defensive techniques in his arsenal: Aether Split-Note Detonation.
A technique that touched upon Sound, Sunflame, Void, and Aether Aspects to come into life... Levi might have made it look easy, but in reality, there was so much going on behind the scenes to bring it to life without endangering himself too.
After all, he was sitting inside the dome, and yet, the explosion hadn’t touched him.
-Three minutes left before the Celestial’s turn to attack... since the Masked Butcher challenged him using a pure offensive tactic, he is f*cked if he doesn’t finish this during his turn.-
-Celestial has truly put him in a difficult spot...-
The watchers started sympathizing with the Masked Butcher... they knew that he was extremely powerful in close range, but as a nightcrawler, he simply couldn’t risk getting close to a defensive technique that released sunflames outward.
His only solutions were to switch to spiritual attacks or projectiles if they were capable of piercing through the dome without exploding it.
’I need to weaken him, then finish him off with my ultimate.’ The Masked Butcher narrowed his eyes coldly, ’This is my only way to slay him before the roles switch.’
The Masked Butcher wasn’t at his wits’ end yet... he swiftly returned tens of meters away from Levi and then sliced his palm open.
Before the blood could spill out, he smashed his palm on the floor and then shouted, "Bloodline Eruption!"
The spilled blood spread under the floor tiles like roots, approaching Levi rapidly... Levi glanced at the blood roots and didn’t bother using the same defensive technique.
He raised the bow and played a different tune this time... the aetheric barrier around him was immediately devoured by a raging circle of sunflame with Levi in the center.
The moment the slithering blood roots reached the burning zone, they evaporated into red mist, incapable of passing through it to finish off the attack.
The Masked Butcher clicked his tongue in irritation and stopped forcing it, not daring to waste time... instead, he switched to a different attack.
He tore a long bone shard from his own arm, then shaped it up as a sharp javelin... he tightened his grasp on the shard and empowered his arm by increasing the size of his muscles through Flesh Aspect.
The Masked Butcher didn’t call himself that for no reason... he wielded Blood, Flesh, Bone, and Metal Aspects... his entire body was a weapon of destruction.
The moment his arm’s size doubled, and so did his legs, the Masked Butcher aimed the bone javelin at Levi and then tightened all of his muscles to the limit.
Seeing this, Levi instantly switched his tune to a dark, harrowing, and depressed one... following the tune, the sunflames died out and were replaced by a pitch-dark energy spilling out of Levi’s clothes into the ground, but away from the sunflame chair.
Then, the void manifested into a pitch-dark wall in front of him with a swirling, almost invisible animation.
When the Masked Butcher saw it, he gritted his teeth and suddenly jumped into the sky, taking everyone by surprise.
In an instant, he appeared hundreds of meters above the ground... before he could fall off, he aimed the bone javelin at Levi’s hooded scalp and hurled it while roaring, "CELESTIAL!!"
The bone javelin was so fast, it arrived above Levi’s head at the exact time of his shout... alas, it was fast, but it could never be faster than a wall of nothingness.
With a mere sharp tune, the wall of void appeared instantly above Levi’s head, like a symbiote creature being controlled by his violin.
The moment the bone javelin touched it, it sank within it and never appeared again... utterly devoured without leaving a fragment behind.
Thud!!
The Masked Butcher landed on the floor behind Levi and turned slowly to face him... yet, Levi didn’t even bother turning his chair, showing him his wide open back.
Levi wasn’t being arrogant or underestimating him... he simply had no reason to turn when his harmonic spine showed him a 360 vision of the area.
Though he did lift his hand and show three fingers... still not speaking.
Yet, this slight move made the Masked Butcher livid, feeling like he was being taunted. However, he didn’t let his emotions get the best of him.
’I have two minutes left...’ The Masked Butcher thought carefully about his next attack, ’The creep can use that dome defensive ability to negate my powerful melee attacks... void wall to devour my ranged attacks, and sunflame to eat my sneaky attacks... I don’t have anything else that can break those defenses besides my ultimate.’
’Shit... just how did he become this powerful?! He was gone for less than six months!’
The Masked Butcher narrowed his eyes, showing a tough front on the outside... but on the inside, the panic was slowly eating him away.
The Ace card that he made fun of earlier had become the most dreaded card in his life... for he knew, Levi would only need one sunflame-based attack to finish him off.
’Wait... don’t tell me he predicted that I won’t bring defensive cards and that’s why he didn’t bother to risk special cards?’
The Masked Butcher felt his heart skip a beat as he gazed at Levi’s menacing, but silent back...